François Chopart
François Chopart (1743 – 1795) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously associated with Chopart fracture-dislocation, Chopart joint and Chopart amputation.
Regional Nerve Block
Critical Care Compendium - The C-IMPLE approach to regional nerve block
Being More Than A Bystander
Unprofessional behaviours by health professionals, in hospitals, are associated with a significantly increased risk of preventable patient complications.
The men who stare at goats (and big boar)
Tropical Traveler Clinical Case. Brucellosis aetiology, differential, diagnosis, management and treatment.
Right Ventricular Function and Echo
Right Ventricular Function and Haemodynamic Assessment Echocardiography
Masquerading Bundle Branch Block (MBBB)
Mixed pattern of RBBB in precordial leads and LBBB in limb leads, with a higher rate of progression to complete heart block than typical bifascicular block
Augustus Desiré Waller
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856 – 1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first ever electrocardiogram (ECG).
James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing (1866-1943) Eponymously remembered for describing a new “endothelioma” that would later be known as Ewing sarcoma
Will Pickles
Biography Born on March 6, 1885 in Camp Road, Leeds 1914-1918 Surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve during WWI 1942 – Milroy lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians of London 1946 – Stewart prize of the British Medical Association, shared with…
Frank Eve
Frank Cecil Eve (1871-1952) was an English physician. Eponym: Eve’s rocking method for artificial respiration published in 1932
Edward Sharpey-Schafer
Biography Born Edward Albert Schäfer on June 2, 1850 in Hornsey, England 1918 – Name change to Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. In memory of his son John Sharpey Schafer, killed in action, his teacher and mentor William Sharpey (1802-1880) Died on…
POCUS Physics 4
Ever wondered how harmonics actually work? Why you can hear Daft Punk through concrete? Who or what ALARA is? Where you can find a camembert sandwich? All this - and more - in the fourth penetrating episode of POCUS Physics!